Word:
LoucheStatus:
AdjectiveMeaning:
Not decent or reputableSentences:
1) Before gentrification, it was the sort of louche neighbourhood where one could find illegal drugs.
2) They were a bunch of louche adolescents.Origin:
French, meaning literally 'cross-eyed', 'squint eyes', from Latin luscus meaning 'blind in one eye'.First use:
1819Synonyms:
discredible, disgraceful, infamous, shoody, shy, disrespectableAntonyms:
respectful, honourable.******
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